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2nd October

posted 2 Oct 2017, 04:01 by Newport Gaa

Under 7: The U7 hurling and football season
concluded last Saturday 30th September. The last 3 weeks have been very exciting
with the players taking part in a guard of honour and a half time blitz for the
Newport and Silvermines senior teams for the county league final, followed by a
football blitz in Portroe the following week.

To round off our Season, we have been
running a skills competition with the players at training for a number of weeks.
They have all worked extremely hard on their hurling and football skills and
were rewarded with special medals during our final session.

Over 30 children took part in 2 great
games and demonstrated all their skills to the large gathering of parents that
came to support. After the game, our club senior captain and former Tipp
star Conor O Mahony presented all the players with their medals for completing
all their skills and for their excellent year’s work. It was a great morning
and the party bags were enjoyed A special thanks to Conor for his time.

The coaching team would like to thank
all the parents and players for their support and participation during a great
year. We are very proud of the excellent facilities we have and support
we receive in our club.

A big thank you to Alfie O’ Brien who
has been a great support all year in helping to ensure the large number of U7's
were included in U8 blitzes and in helping arrange local blitzes as well as
offering advice along the way.

Míle Buíochas to the manager Mike
Coffey (Red) and mentors Brian Healy, David Troy, Sinead O Mahony, Marie O
Mahony, Mike Coffey(Shower), Mike Boland, Connor Gleeson John Landers, Kerrie
Crowley, David Sadlier, Garry O Callaghan, John Berkery and Jordan Young for
giving so much of their time and energy with this group.

We plan to hold some workshops over
the winter and will keep parents posted on these dates.

Under 8’s; Our Under 8’s had two teams in
Newtownshandrum, Cork for a hurling blitz under lights last Friday
evening. We played teams from Newtownshandrum and Milford of Cork, Ahane &
Murroe / Boher from Limerick and Holycross also from Tipp.
The players played some excellent hurling in some very competitive
matches.

They really enjoyed the experience of
playing their 1st match under lights. A big thank you to Newtownshandrum for
the invite & organising a brilliant night's hurling.
Our next blitz is v Cuala from Dublin on Sunday Oct 8th in Lacken Park

Under 11: Our two U-11
teams made their respective divisional hurling league finals which were played
in Nenagh last Friday evening. The Purple team played Lorrha having beaten them
3 weeks earlier in the league. Lorrha hit the ground running and were a
formidable team with whom Tulach Sheasta could not get to grips. Despite a
much improved second half performance from the lads, Lorrha finished out to
deservedly win the final. Our Gold team played a very strong Nenagh team
in the other final and while the boys put in a great effort, Nenagh won the
game. Both teams deserve great credit for making the finals and while we
didn't win the silverware this time it bodes well for the future of our club
hurling.

Junior:
Our junior hurlers defeated Silvermines in the North Championship semi-final
last Saturday. Final score Tulach Sheasta 2-13 Silvermines 1-11. They will meet
Lorrha in the North final.